Elder Jared Holt: Week 48

Sup!

Everything's going good here. I couldn't get an email out last
week so I guess I have 2 weeks to catch up on. I've been doing that a
lot lately because our p-days have been packed.

There is a kid in our ward named Kombi. He is 13, and he
and his family immigrated from Congo a few years ago. He is one of
the coolest kids and has been bringing his friends, Mark and Jack to
church for a couple months. The Young Men's leader took
them all to the pageant and after seeing it Mark and Jack said that they
would feel comfortable taking the missionary lessons, so last Sunday
we had our first lesson with them and it was sweet. We taught them the
Restoration and Kombi was able to sit in with us and bear his
testimony. It went well. Mark and Jack are both really good kids
that sincerely want to learn. English is their second language too but
I'm not sure where they are from. We're excited to teach them.

With the Key Mey family, we have been trying to re-teach them the
lessons in more creative ways so that they can understand better. We
taught them the Restoration using cups to build a pyramid and
represent the apostasy and that went really well. They are still
coming to church every other Sunday and we visit them every week.
We have hit a slow spot with them. The kids want to be baptized, but Key
Mey is not ready, so we won't be able to do much until we can help him
gain a testimony. That's the hard part because he can't speak English. We
are trying to figure out how to best help him to progress.

Last week before zone meeting we went out for district lunch at the famous

"Anchor Bar". It's the most popular wings place in Buffalo and is apparently

where the first buffalo wing was invented. It's a place you have to go to if you

ever visit Buffalo (except I don't know why anyone in their right mind would take

a getaway to this city). We bought a hundred wings and they were sooooooo

good. The best chicken wings I've ever had. The BBQ wings were the best.

Since I'm talking about food, Elder Clinger and I also went to one of the most

popular pizza places in town. "La Nova". Since Buffalo is so big into chicken wings,
the pizza places around here make the best chicken finger pizza ever. It's

just a Buffalo chicken wing in pizza form. Really, all Buffalo can offer to people is
pizza and wings, but at least they do it right.